Bullfighting: The Facts

It
seems hard to believe that in this so-called civilised age, a most vicious
and cruel spectacle of blood continues to flourish in Spain and certain
other countries. Bullfighting is barbaric and should have been banned
long ago, as bear-baiting was.Read more

News

PETA Activists Fill Sky With âBloodâ

Around 100 supporters of PETA and AnimaNaturalis gathered in the centre of Pamplona, Spain, ahead of the Running of the Bulls.Read more

Spanish
Matador Ivan Fandino Dies In Bullring In France

A matador has died after being gored in the chest by a bull, becoming
the second Spanish bullfighter to die in the bullring in the past year.Read more

Spanish
matador fighting for life in hospital after being gored three times in
bullring

Pablo Belando was carried out of Madrid's world-famous Las Ventas bullring
after being mauled in his chest, leg and buttocks.Read more

Petition
for a Bullfighting Referendum

Petition on Change.org by Luis Quilis Cartagena, Spain calling for a
referendum to decide whether to continue this barbaric tradition.Read more

Matador
Victor Barrio's bullring death reignites bullfighting debate

Barrio, a household name in Spain, died after being mauled by an 83-stone
bull in the first bullring death since 1987.Read more

Men
accused of rape at Pamplona bull-running festival

All of the men come from Seville and were visiting Pamplona for the San
Fermin festival which attracts thousands of people from all over the world.
Read more

A bullfighter and a man participating in a village bull-run were killed
in Spain on Saturday 9th July, while another two men were gored by the
animals at the world-famous festival in the town of Pamplona. Read
more

Gruesome
moment female matador holds severed ears of bull aloft

Lea Vicens, picador, held the severed ears of a bull to a cheering crowd
at a bullfight during the Feria de Nimes fighting festival in the south
of France. Ms Vicens was in her home town at the five-day bullfighting
festival. Read more

European
Parliament Votes to End Subsidies for Bullfighting

On 28th Ocotober in the European Parliament, 438 out of 687 MEPs voted
in favour of an amendment that would stop over €100 million in EU
agricultural subsidies from being used to raise bulls for bullfights.
Read more

Spanish
bullfight called off after three matadors are injured

A bullfight in Madrid had to be called off after three matadors were
seriously injured. The 12th fight of the San Isidro festival was stopped
after two bullfighters were gored and a third tossed into the air. Read
more

Flaming-horned
bull gores man to death during Spanish festival

A flaming-horned bull trampled and fatally gored a man on Saturday during
a festival in eastern Spain. Large balls of flaming wax are traditionally
affixed to the beasts' heads before they are let loose to rampage in such
festivals. Read more

Matador
gored to death at summer festival

A matador became the fourth Spaniard to die during a festival in three
days when he was gored during a bullfight. Miguel Ruiz Perez, 29, lost
his balance during an exhibition involving athletes and bulls in Navarra,
Spain. Read more

Activist
Jumps into Bullfighting Ring to Comfort Dying Bull

In an extraordinary act of bravery, an animal rights activist jumped
into the Malagueta bullfighting ring to comfort a dying bull in Malaga,
Spain. Virginia Ruiz was able to lay her body over the bull and shield
him before being hauled away. Read
more

R.I.P.
Tony Moore (Fight Against Animal Cruelty Campaigner)

On Friday 27th December 2013 Tony Moore, co-founder and chairman of Southport
based animal rights charity “Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe”
(FAACE) died from lung cancer, aged 79. Read
more

Poem
about the matador Christian Montcouquiol

Christian Montcouquiol was a matador who hanged himself in 1991 after
being paralysed by a bull.Read more

Photo
from Enquirer Magazine

A terrified bull tried to jump over a six feet high fence in a vain attempt
to escape his tormentors.Read more

Álvaro
Múnera - Bullfighter who quit

Article taken from snopes.com about this photograph showing the collapse
of Torrero Alvaro Munera, as he realized in the middle of his last fight
... the injustice to the animal. From that day forward he became an opponent
of bullfights. Read more

Spanish
state television drops bullfighting as too violent for children

Radiotelevision Espanola (RTVE) has pledged not to show bullfighting
on its channels given that the evening corridas usually occur during peak
viewing times for children. Read more

Bull
Killed After Jumping Into Spectators

Disturbing video was released on Wednesday after a bull jumped into the
arena of the Tafalla bullring in Spain and trampled spectators. The bull
charged and tossed everything in his sight, leaving 40 people injured.
Read more

The Fleeing Bullfighter who saw Sense

Footage of Mexican bullfighter Christian Hernandez fleeing the ring last
Sunday at the first sight of the slaveringly piqued slab of beef in the
opposite corner has become a global internet hit. Read
more

Catalonia Votes to Ban Bullfighting

Already faced with a rapidly ageing fanbase at home and widespread incomprehension
and rejection abroad, Spanish bullfighting has suffered another major
setback after the Catalan parliament voted to outlaw it completely across
the region. Read more

Man gored to death at running of the bulls in Pamplona

A charging bull gored a young Spanish man to death at Pamplona's San
Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years. Nine others
were injured in a particularly dangerous and chaotic chapter of the running
of the bulls. Read more

11 year old matador is victim of child abuse

A bullfight which featured an 11 year old matador has been described
as "child abuse". Michelle Lagravere tortured and killed 6 calves
in Mexico on Saturday 24th January 2009, despite animal rights campaigners
trying to have the fight stopped. Read more

Campaigns

UK:
Stop Funding Bullfights with Taxes - The Petition Site

Every year, £110 million of taxpayer money is given to Spanish
farmers who use their pastures to raise fighting bulls. Under the guise
of "Common Agriculture Policy," these federal subsidies are
the key support that keeps the bullfighting industry from financial ruin.
Rejecting bullfighting is about more than revenue: it's about rejecting
torture. Stop funding cruelty with our taxes. www.thepetitionsite.com

The
Joy of Toro

The Joy of Toro (bull of fire) is a grotesque spectacle that draws protests
and boycotts of tourism worldwide. However, it remains Medinaceli occur
annually in the province of Soria, Spain. Read
more

Visit.guide-spain.com promoting bullfighting

The website entitled visit.guide-spain.com
shows various places of interest throughout Spain, such as bullfighting
events, the running of the bulls, churches, monasteries and cathedrals.
They have requested comments on these places for their Facebook
page, so comments condemning bullfighting, the running of the bulls
and fiestas involving animal cruelty could be made. Also comments calling
on the church to condemn these atrocities could be made on the church,
cathedral and monastery pages.

Tell UNESCO: Bullfighting isn't culture, it's cruelty

Petition to UNESCO, sponsored by Humane Society International, against
France and Spain trying to protect this cruel bloodsport by getting it
listed as a form of "cultural heritage". A UNESCO "cultural
heritage" listing would give a veneer of respectability to the torture
of animals for public entertainment and mean subsidies may be made available
to financially safeguard the future of bullfighting. Link
to petition

Bullfights declared Intangible Cultural Patrimony of France

The Ministry of Culture decided to list bullfights as immaterial heritage
of the country last Friday. This is a first step to candidate bullfights
to Intangible Cultural Patrimony of the World. Please send letters of
protest to the President of Republic, Prime Minister and Ministry of Culture.
Click here

Mock bullfight at the Glastonbury Festival

According to British media reports there will be a mock bullfight staged
by a Portuguese bullfighter in a newly built bullring at this year’s
Glastonbury Festival. Click here

Petition
to UNESCO

Please sign the following petition to send to UNESCO Against the Declaration
of Bullfights as World Intangible Cultural Heritage. (This petition is in
Spanish, English and French) Click
here

Protest
in Bilbao

Animalist associations along with more than 200 animal activists were
united in front of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao in protest against
the bullfighting acts that are being celebrated during the Great Week
of the Vizcaya capital. Click here

Protest
against Frank Evans booksigning

Frank Evans was due to sign his his autobiography entitled "The
Last British Bullfighter" at Waterstones in Liverpool and Manchester
this month. However, after a flood of e-mails from protestors, Waterstones
cancelled these events. Click here

Demonstration
in Toredisillas

On September 13th 2009 there was a demonstration in Toredisillas against
the torture and spearing of a bull to death, which is an annual event
in this village.
To read more Click here

Nude
Spanish Embassy Protest 2009

On Tuesday 23rd June, 2009 a demonstration (organised by People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals) took place outside the Spanish Embassy in
London, to coincide with the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.
To read more and see photos Click
here

Written Declaration for an EU wide ban on bullfighting

Four MEPs presented on the 15th of January a Written Declaration for
an EU wide ban on bullfighting as well as a ban on subsidies to bull breeders.
The elapse time will be the 15th of April 2007.
For more information Click here

Qatar
Airways promotes bullfights

Qatar Airways, Thailand branch is advertising flights to Madrid, Spain,
using a photo of a bullfight.
For more information, a sample letter and addresses to write to click
here

The"Paseo Del Buey" (Stroll of Ox) in Queretaro, Mexico

This cruel celebration is dedicated to the Virgin of a small town and
takes place on the 5th February, at Villa Corregidora, Queretaro, Mexico.
This is organized by the Franciscan monks and entails a week of dances.
For more information, a sample letter and addresses to write to click
here

Hanging
of Greyhounds in Spain

With the conclusion of Spain's hunting season, the hanging of the galgos/greyhounds
begins. And once again the world bears witness to dead dogs, dangling
from wire nooses, inches above the ground. Every year tens of thousands
of Spain's hunting and racing dogs meet a crude and senseless fate after
brief lives of loyal service.
For more information, a sample letter and addresses to write to click
here

Protest Against the Returning of Bullfights to Lisbon

After being closed for 6 years the bullring of Lisbon reopened after
renovation work on the 18th May. A small shopping mall was built under
the bullring with shops, bars and restaurants. This cost 60 million euros.
For more information, a sample letter and addresses to write to click
here

Campaigns
Against Bloody "Fiestas" in Spain

Details on some of the Fiestas in Spain (Bull with ropes - Benavente,
Coria's bull - Coria, Bull with Spears - Tordesillas, Fire Bulls - Medinaceli).
For more information and addresses to write to click
here

Protest
Against Bullfights in France

Several villages and cities in France hold bullfights and other popular
fiestas that abuse bulls.
For more information, a sample letter and addresses to write to click
here